1198 – The Giralda minaret designed by architect Ben Ahmad for the Almohad mosque in Seville is completed. Now the Bell Tower for Seville’s cathedral.
1697 – Tsar Peter the Great of Russia begins a tour of Western Europe
1893 – New Mexico State University cancels its 1st graduation ceremony; its only graduand Sam Steele was robbed and killed the night before
1902 – Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri
1951 – FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner
1951 – Ireland clinches their 7th Five Nations Rugby Championship with a 3-3 draw against Wales at the National Stadium, Cardiff
1981 – “Bette Davis Eyes” single released by Kim Carnes (Billboard Song of the Year 1981)
1984 – Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page
1994 – 1 million Greeks attend actress and activist Melina Mercouri’s funeral
2012 – 33rd Big East Men’s Basketball Tournament: Louisville beats Cincinnati, 50-44
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 9th March 2022
1889 – Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US
1942 – Construction of the Alaska Highway begins
1949 – England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes
1956 – Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
1975 – “Lieutenant” opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 9 performances
1979 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1988 – Actress Audrey Hepburn is appointed a UNICEF Special Ambassador (Goodwill Ambassador 1989)
1989 – Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
2006 – Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn
2012 – Indian batsman Rahul Dravid announces his retirement from Test and domestic cricket
Historical Events for 8th March 2022
1855 – 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls
1930 – Baseball slugger Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for a then huge $160,000 with NY Yankees; GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts “No one will ever be paid more than Ruth”
1943 – US Ladies’ Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1951 – Intl Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel)
1970 – WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1979 – China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam
1980 – 6th People’s Choice Awards: Burt Reynolds and Jane Fonda win (Motion Picture) and Alan Alda and Carol Burnett win (TV)
1987 – “A Team” last aired on NBC-TV after 4 years
1999 – The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
2012 – Greece secures debt-restructuring deal with private lenders
Historical Events for 7th March 2022
1827 – Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England, is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand
1857 – Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs
1948 – The Dodecanese islands officially become part of Greece again, ending Italian rule
1965 – Alabama state troopers and 600 black protesters clash in Selma during “Bloody Sunday”, protesters, including future congressman John Lewis beaten and hospitalized
1971 – Egypt refuses to renew the Suez cease fire
1977 – Ali Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party wins elections
1982 – NCAA Tournament Selection televised live for 1st time
1994 – 8th American Comedy Award: Carrot Top
2009 – Despite only being 17 years old, Brazilian soccer star Neymar makes his professional debut for Santos
2019 – Thailand’s Constitutional Court dissolves opposition party Thai Raksa Chart, after it nominated the King’s sister as candidate for Prime Minister
Historical Events for 6th March 2022
1479 – Treaty of Alcaçovas: Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa
1862 – Battle of Pea Ridge, Arkansas (Elkhorn Tavern)
1906 – Heavy storm bursts dike, flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands
1951 – The trial of Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel Rosenberg begins
1962 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 – Atlantis (OV-104) rollout at Palmdale
1999 – 20th Big East Men’s Basketball Tournament: Connecticut beats St. John’s, 82-63
2001 – US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham establishes the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve to be used in emergency circumstances
2012 – 9,000 residents are evacuated from Wagga Wagga, Australia, as the Murrimbidgee River threatens to overflow
2019 – US trade deficit rises to 10-year high of $621 billion
Historical Events for 5th March 2022
1046 – Persian scholar Naser Khosrow begins the 7 year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama
1766 – Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Territory from the French
1840 – 2nd Grand National: Bartholomew Bretherton wins aboard 16/1 Jerry; a then smallest field of 13
1856 – Covent Garden Opera House, London, destroyed in a fire
1924 – Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games
1960 – Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army
1963 – Beatles record “From Me to You” and “Thank You Girl”
1970 – “Airport” based on the book by Arthur Hailey, directed by George Seaton and starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin is released
1972 – Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves communist party
2002 – American reality TV program The Osbournes” featuring family of Ozzy Osbourne premieres on MTV
Historical Events for 4th March 2022
1774 – First sighting of Orion nebula by William Herschel
1789 – 1st US Congress meets and declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps)
1791 – Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
1792 – Oranges introduced to Hawaii
1793 – French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands
1954 – James E. Wilkins appointed 1st black US sub-cabinet member
1966 – North Sea Gas 1st pumped ashore by BP
1968 – Joe Frazier takes his record to 20-0 and captures vacant world heavyweight boxing title; stops Buster Mathis in 11th round TKO at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1982 – Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada
1993 – Katharine Hepburn admitted to hospital suffering from exhaustion
Historical Events for 3rd March 2022
1791 – Congress establishes US Mint
1815 – US declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners and demanding tribute
1849 – US Home Department (later renamed the Department of the Interior) established by Congress
1904 – England cricket all-rounder Bernard Bosanquet takes 6 for 51 as tourists dismiss Australia for 171 in the 4th Test in Sydney to regain the Ashes; take an unassailable, 3-1 series lead
1923 – US Senate rejects membership of the International Court of Justice, The Hague
1926 – International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Fla)
1934 – John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol
1991 – Miguel Trovoada installed as president of Sao Tomé e Principal
2013 – A 2 year old US girl becomes the first child born with HIV to be cured
2016 – Eleventh Republican presidential candidates debate hosted by Fox, held in Detroit, Michigan
Historical Events for 2nd March 2022
1815 – Signing of Kandyan treaty by British invaders and Sri Lankan King
1865 – Freedman’s Bureau founded for Black Education, 1865
1901 – United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American troops
1907 – General Louis Botha named premier of Transvaal
1963 – 10th ACC Men’s Basketball Tournament, Reynolds Coliseum, Raleigh, NC: Duke beats Wake Forest, 68-57
1981 – Howard Stern begins broadcasting on WWDC in Washington, D.C.
1993 – Mario Lemieux undergoes his 22nd and final radiation treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma, then joins the Pittsburgh Penguins in Philadelphia and has a goal and assist in a 5-4 loss to the Flyers
2020 – Amy Klobuchar drops out of the US Democratic presidential race and endorses Joe Biden
2020 – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey can not longer enforce 2016 deal with EU to stop migrants entering Europe, warns millions may try
2021 – Governors of Texas and Mississippi both announce they are lifting mask mandates and COVID-19 health measures despite CDC warnings of complacency
Historical Events for 1st March 2022
705 – John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1260 – Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquers Damascus
1896 – Battle of Adwa: 80,000 Ethiopians destroy 20,000 Italians in Ethopia, killing two generals and capturing General Matteo Albertone
1909 – 1st US university school of nursing established, University of Minnesota
1942 – Major League Baseball owners decide not to allow players in the military to play for their clubs when on furlough
1944 – U-358 sinks in Atlantic
1993 – New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner is reinstated as general partner of the team; banned because of his relationship with convicted gambler Howie Spira
1995 – Jozef Oleksy succeeds Waldemar Pawlak on as premier of Poland
2000 – The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
2009 – Steven Holcomb pilots USA-1 sled to victory in the 4-man competition at the World Bobsled Championships at Mt Van Hoevenberg, NY; first American win in the event in 50 years